BIWIN SSD C8386 with Power Failure Protection Technology

BIWIN has launched a new business-grade SSD - C8386, which equipped with power failure protection technology. BIWIN, a world-leading expert in the development and manufacture of flash and advanced NAND flash memory, has launched a new business-grade SSD, the C8386, equipped with unique power failure protection technology. BIWIN’s C8386 SSD offers real-time monitoring through the adoption of a power supply detection chip. The firmware of the SSD will be immediately guarded once the voltage is detected to be lower than 4V. This effectively avoids serious damage caused by an unexpected power loss, such as the disk being unable to be read or a system crash.

The BIWIN C8386 uses the advanced Tantalum capacitor. Compared with ordinary capacitors, the Tantalum has a longer operational life of 25 years and better thermo stability under a 110° temperature working environment. The unique Self-Healing Function enables the Tantalum capacitor to automatically repair or isolate the oxidation film defect which is caused by long time usage. Consequently, the oxidation film medium can be strengthened and the insulating capability can be recovered.

Within the high standard selection of flash memory, the C8386 is optimized for its outstanding performance. Both read and write speeds are 3 times faster than a traditional hard disk, which enormously reduces the file transferring time and accelerates program execution processes.

#4622950 Posted on: 07/20/2013 12:43 AM
my computer is very quite though LOL!!! what about yours?

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#4622951 Posted on: 07/20/2013 12:44 AM
Waterblocks waiting for me to finish my university semester. Whisper quiet when I was running my waterloop. Now I'm back on stock cooler waiting for a chance for a proper go at it.

I think OP would be a bit annoyed if we went more off-topic, though

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#4622954 Posted on: 07/20/2013 12:47 AM
i guess cool speak soon good luck for the guy with the hard decision to make

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#4622964 Posted on: 07/20/2013 01:02 AM
You're way way way out of touch. Obviously you haven't looked at a review or benchmark test in at least a year.

The first gen 79xx series were released in Jan 2012 with Tahiti Pro/XT cores and Elpida memory. The 7970 was clocked at 925/1375 and 7950 at 850/1250.
The 7970 competed w/ 670 and 7950 was positioned between the 660Ti and 670 due to less than stellar performance and the drivers sucked.

In June 2012 a second generation of 79xx cards were released with Tahiti Pro2 and Tahiti XT2 cores and Hynix memory.

The 7970 GPU stock speed was now ~1000-1050mhz GPU and 1500mhz memory, AMD nicknamed it the Ghz Edition.
ALL 7970's since then have ~1000mhz stock clocks, slight variation between brands. They are ALL Ghz Edition GPU's. The name is just a marketing gimmick.

Since June all 7950 Pro2's are clocked at ~950mhz. The Boost label is just BS because every single card since June runs at ~925/950mhz when switched to the 2nd boost BIOS.
Do you really think people buy a 7950 just to run it at 850mhz when they're spec'd at 950? No of course not.

Any cards you may see selling with slower clocks like 800-850mhz are old stock and are prob sold by names like VTX.

Then ofc 12.11 drivers came out with huge fps gains.

So now the 7970 trades blows with 680 and 7950 with 670. That you think the 7950 competes with a 660Ti is pretty ignorant tbh.

An overclocked 7950 at just 1100mhz will match an overclocked 680 and an overclocked 7970 will beat it. And if we're talking overclocked 79xx vs stock 6xx there's a lot more than 10% difference you speak of.

If you have any doubts about that go look at my scores in 3DMark 13 thread vs the GTX680.
In fact look at any review from June onwards, HardOCP has a revised test between the 7xxx and 6xx you can check out.

Guess which color came out on top...

I think the magic number for Tahiti is actually around 1200, with 1280 being Kepler's. However, I bolded this because I was never disagreeing with it. But really, I'm not out of touch, nor do I actually think that the 7950 realistically competes with the 660Ti as of today since the clocks have been bumped. I was just setting a reference point. When the 660Ti came out, Nvidia was targeting the 850Mhz 7950.

All I'm saying is that ~10% performance difference at the high end of overclocks (between a max overclocked Tahiti & Kepler) is hardly that big of a lead. Did AMD win the round? Debatable, but they certainly have the performance crown, which I'm not trying to deny. But really, "left in the dust"? Come on now, bro.

Also, I'm not biased, my clock comparisons come from personal experience. My 7970 at 1000 matched my 680 at 1056, pretty much exactly. Tahiti gets a scaling bump once it hits 1200, while Kepler's clock scaling falls off, however: a lot of the gains on Kepler on the high end of overclocking come from VRAM raising. On Tahiti, memory overclocking doesn't do much because of the 384bit bus.

Anyway idk if the newest GPU's will do 1200mhz, there are some nasty rumors that the very latest GPU's have been voltage locked.

Tbh I'm skeptical of this and have yet to see or come across any solid evidence, doesn't mean it's not true though.

Does seem odd that AMD would do this now after 1.5yrs.....so who knows.

I know you didn't say it, I was just laying it down since I own a 680 currently. The reasons I bought it were not related to an illusion of superior performance or anything. A lot of it was that I'm too lazy to overclock these days Auto overclock for the win.

As for voltage locked 7970's, some OEM's have been doing that for a while, like Gigabyte. It's garbage honestly, next gen GPU's better not be all voltage locked again.

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#4622982 Posted on: 07/20/2013 01:43 AM
Well with 4GB at least you have a good start if you want to go SLI.

If I ever went muilti GPU again it sure wouldn't be CF. I'd love to get another 7950, but sadly AMD CF support still sucks as much as when I ran X1950 XT CF - and that sucked pretty hard.

. On Tahiti, memory overclocking doesn't do much because of the 384bit bus.

Why do u say it doesn't do much? If u mean they already have plenty of bandwidth and don't need any more I'd prob agree with you....

I think it was the vanilla 7970 and 7950's that were locked the pro2 and XT2 are still unlocked as far as I've seen.